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World map

Every country, colored by Sworn Score.

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Countries covered: 217
Scored: 174
Median score: 53.8
Top ranked: Norway

Year1997

Showing 1997 snapshot.

Year

1997

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19651970198019902000201020202026Live

Global promises

4,000 commitments across 217 countries

43%

achieved or on track

Achieved: 1,399 · 35.0%
On track: 301 · 7.5%
Failing: 1,817 · 45.4%
Broken: 14 · 0.4%
Tracking: 469 · 11.7%
Not verifiable: 0 · 0.0%

4,000 of 4,000 commitments are linked to a Sworn metric and verifiable against official data. See methodology for how each status is computed.

World trend

Median Sworn Score, all scored countries

55.5

-2.4 since 1965

Line shows the median Sworn Score across 192 scored countries each year. Shaded band is the inter-quartile range (25th–75th percentile) — the spread of the “typical half” of the world. Each year uses that year’s frozen methodology bounds, so the trend reflects real change, not a moving yardstick.

Green list & Red list · 2021 → 2026

Who’s moving the most, up and down.

Top 10 countries that improved the most and fell the most over the last 5 years.

All movers

Green list

59 countries improved

Top 10 that improved the most

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Red list

133 countries declined

Top 10 that fell the most

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Rankings · 1997

Sortable country leaderboard

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Year1997

Snapshot: 1997

Rows10 25 50 100

54 countries

#	Country	Continent	Score
32	Seychelles Africa	Africa	66.6 ± 5
51	Mauritius Africa	Africa	60.5 ± 5
60	Sao Tome and Principe Africa	Africa	58.2 ± 5
74	South Africa Africa	Africa	56.6 ± 2
81	Cabo Verde Africa	Africa	55.1 ± 5
82	Botswana Africa	Africa	55.1 ± 2
86	Tunisia Africa	Africa	53.9 ± 2
97	Namibia Africa	Africa	51.6 ± 2
98	Lesotho Africa	Africa	51.5 ± 2
114	Morocco Africa	Africa	46.6 ± 2
117	Gabon Africa	Africa	46.3 ± 5
119	Zimbabwe Africa	Africa	45.3 ± 5
121	Algeria Africa	Africa	44.9 ± 2
123	Ghana Africa	Africa	43.8 ± 2
124	Tanzania Africa	Africa	43.5 ± 2
125	Egypt, Arab Rep. Africa · Asia	Africa · Asia	43.2 ± 2
126	Eswatini Africa	Africa	43.2 ± 5
127	Libya Africa	Africa	42.9 ± 5
128	Kenya Africa	Africa	42.1 ± 5
129	Madagascar Africa	Africa	42.1 ± 2
131	Malawi Africa	Africa	40.9 ± 5
132	Zambia Africa	Africa	40.3 ± 2
134	Eritrea Africa	Africa	39.9 ± 5
137	Burundi Africa	Africa	39.7 ± 5
138	Uganda Africa	Africa	39.6 ± 2
139	Congo, Rep. Africa	Africa	39.2 ± 5
140	Mozambique Africa	Africa	39.1 ± 2
141	Cote d'Ivoire Africa	Africa	39.1 ± 2
143	Benin Africa	Africa	38.0 ± 5
144	Cameroon Africa	Africa	37.8 ± 2
145	Gambia, The Africa	Africa	37.7 ± 5
146	Djibouti Africa	Africa	37.6 ± 5
148	Senegal Africa	Africa	37.1 ± 2
151	Nigeria Africa	Africa	36.6 ± 5
152	Comoros Africa	Africa	35.7 ± 5
153	Togo Africa	Africa	35.3 ± 5
155	Mauritania Africa	Africa	34.5 ± 5
156	Guinea-Bissau Africa	Africa	33.4 ± 5
157	Rwanda Africa	Africa	33.2 ± 5
158	Guinea Africa	Africa	32.9 ± 2
159	Burkina Faso Africa	Africa	32.9 ± 2
160	Sierra Leone Africa	Africa	32.1 ± 5
162	Somalia, Fed. Rep. Africa	Africa	31.4 ± 5
163	Equatorial Guinea Africa	Africa	31.4 ± 5
164	Angola Africa	Africa	30.6 ± 5
165	Mali Africa	Africa	30.4 ± 5
166	Ethiopia Africa	Africa	29.7 ± 5
168	Congo, Dem. Rep. Africa	Africa	29.3 ± 5
170	Sudan Africa	Africa	28.1 ± 5
171	Central African Republic Africa	Africa	28.0 ± 2